The First Steamy Fifty Shades of Grey Trailer Is Here to Fluster You

Whether or not you’re a fan of the best-selling erotica series Fifty Shades of Grey, this trailer is a must-see. Why? As a cautionary tale against mousy bangs? No. As a wish fulfillment for every bright young journalist? No. As an obsessive compulsive exercise in documenting exactly how many shades of grey Jamie Dornan is wearing? No. The reason is this: the trailer will, without question, fluster you. If the steamy elevator encounters don’t do it for you, then, at the very least, the wailing Beyoncé vocals will. So pull this up on your iPad, iPhone, or laptop. Angle the screen away so neither your co-workers nor the people on your commute can see what you’re doing and watch away. Because everyone deserves a little fluster. Especially on a Thursday.

John Barrymore

The legendary stage actor and one-time matinee idol, the so-called “Great Profile,” was a king scene-maker who made a spectacle of himself repeatedly, and publicly, before dying at 60 of cirrhosis and pneumonia. Alcoholism? Orson Welles had a different theory: “He told me all about his father, who went mad and was placed in an insane asylum […] and [he] was afraid he was going the way of his father. He used alcohol to hide from that probability. He’d get drunk, or pretend to be drunk, when he was really lost, when he suddenly didn’t know how he got where he was or what was happening.” Barrymore was one of the first, and most memorable, screen portrayers of Jekyll and Hyde, and his incarnation of an aging jewel thief who bedazzles Greta Garbo in Grand Hotel is a poignant portrait of talent too often squandered.